Circumventing the 404 error

[David Jackson]

Hello,

I understand that I can add something like this to my web.config:

<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="~/error.apsx">
<error statusCode="404" redirect="~/PageNotFound.htm" />
</customErrors>

which will redirect users to the page specified if e.g. someone typed in
http://www.mywebsite.com/thispagedoesnotexist.aspx, but this will not work
for file types which are not handled by ASP.NET - is that correct?

E.g. if someone typed in http://www.mysite.com/thispagedoesnotexist.htm,
they'll get the standard 404 page, right?

I understand that it's possible to modify this behaviour in IIS, but in the
case of a publicly hosted website where the ISP does not allow this, are
there any other options short of moving ISP?

Thank you.

DJ

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That is correct. However, many hosting companies allow you to set a custom
404 page, which could be an ASPX page. In fact, I use this for extensionless
URL rewriting on a hosted site.
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"David Jackson" wrote:

Hello,

I understand that I can add something like this to my web.config:

<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="~/error.apsx">
<error statusCode="404" redirect="~/PageNotFound.htm" />
</customErrors>

which will redirect users to the page specified if e.g. someone typed in
http://www.mywebsite.com/thispagedoesnotexist.aspx, but this will not work
for file types which are not handled by ASP.NET - is that correct?

E.g. if someone typed in http://www.mysite.com/thispagedoesnotexist.htm,
they'll get the standard 404 page, right?

I understand that it's possible to modify this behaviour in IIS, but in the
case of a publicly hosted website where the ISP does not allow this, are
there any other options short of moving ISP?

Thank you.

DJ

[David Jackson]

"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" <pb*******@yahoo.yohohhoandabottleofrum.comwrote
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Hello Peter,

That is correct. However, many hosting companies allow you to set a custom
404 page, which could be an ASPX page. In fact, I use this for
extensionless
URL rewriting on a hosted site.

Thank you for the confirmation. The ISP in question (GoDaddy.com) does not
support this. I've had a quick look around for other ISPs and most as you
say do support this although some charge a fee. I will recommend changing
ISP.

Thank you.

DJ